Electrical Engineer Production Manager
Resume:
A. James DeMone
Westford, MA *****
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HARDWARE: Digital, Microprocessor, Ethernet, Analog, Systems, Voice, Data Communications, Multiplexers, MEMS, Fiber-optic, T1, T3, RF, Altera, DSP, MVIP, VCSEL, TEC TOOLS: Orcad, Viewlogic, PADS, Tango, Altera Max Plus II, Xilinx Foundation SOFTWARE: Assembly; 8051, Z80, 68000. Compiled BASIC, C, Labview, LPC2148
EDUCATION: M.S.E.E., B.S.E.E. - Northeastern University
BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:
TERADIODE
Consultant Sept 2012 to April 2013
Firmware programming of data logger for high power LASER module. Hardware design of data
logger PC board and thermal stabilization daughter board
Volcano-Axsun
Consultant Dec. 2010 to Aug. 2011
Debug of dual axis dither controller circuit board and construction of dither controllers for use in
catheter fiber optic alignment manufacture. Schematic capture of 2.6 GHz RF power amplifier.
PHOTONIC SYSTEMS INC.
Production Manager - Dec 2002 to Feb. 2005
Design of LASER driver electronics including constant current–constant power circuits, TEC control loops and driver circuits, high voltage (300-400V) driver circuits and peak locking circuits for a PLZT Fast Optical Switch. Supervision of production of Modulator Bias Controller and Analog Optical Link Products. Final testing of Modulator Bias Controller and Analog Optical Link Products. Operation of Intermodulation Distortion Test rack to 15 GHz using RF generators, spectrum analyzer and network analyzer.
NORTEL NETWORKS - Cortek Division
SR. ELECTRICAL ENGINEER - June 2000 to Sept 2002
Design of Laser Locker electronics for MEMS tunable laser including fixed point AD 2181/5 DSP,
DAC controlled current sources, 16 bit DAC controlled tuning voltage, 12 bit A/D converters for ETALON signals, +5V to -5V converter and +5V to +40V converter. Design of OSA electronics for voltage tunable optical MEMS filter including 60 dB dynamic range log amp and TEC controller.
PRI AUTOMATION
SR. ELECTRICAL ENGINEER - June 1997 to June 2000
Electronic design of 6 axes Aerohoist electric vehicle/hoist including 68333 microprocessor; 8 channel
10-bit A/D converter, 200 W battery charger, brushless DC motors, stepper motors, 90 Volt solid state power control, 9600 Baud asynchronous IR data link, digital IO for optical collision avoidance sensors, optical travel limit switches, solenoid driver and quadrature encoders, flash memory, Xilinx CPLD.
ANALOGIC
SR. ELECTRICAL ENGINEER - November 1996 to June 1997
Design of Telephony - DSP boards for Computer Telephony applications using multiple 320C32 DSPs with T1, E1, FXO, FXS and MVIP telephone interfaces.
MKS INSTRUMENTS
SR. ELECTRICAL ENGINEER - March 1993 to October 1996
Design of family of high temperature (45C, 150C and 300C) vacuum pressure transducers including models incorporating LonWorks and Devicenet industrial LANs. Designs included 8051 based microprocessor, low level operation amplifier instrumentation circuits for interfacing with 0.05%
accuracy differential capacitance pressure transducers, DC amplifiers, precision full wave rectifiers, linearizing circuits, oscillator leveling circuits, temperature compensation, PWM temperature control loops, A/D converters and zero compensation circuits.
COMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT CORP.
CHIEF ENGINEER - Feb. 1987 to March 1993
Systems, digital, analog and fiber optic design of a 32 port 4 Mb/s Wang data link multiplexer, 4 Mbs Wang data switch, and 128 line digital voice storage unit and voice switch. Software development using Z80 and 8051 assembly language and C programming of IBM AT based voice mail product. Programmable logic design using Altera PLD products.
TAU-TRON INC.
PRODUCT ENGINEER, NETWORK SYSTEMS - April 1985 to Feb. 1987
Managed five person development team responsible for the development of a T1 multiplexer and DS3 repeater products. T1 multiplexer development included design of 2 wire, ground start, loop start FXO/FXS, 56 kbs DDS RS-449/V.35, 64 X N kbs RS-449 and 32/16 kbs CVSD voice cards.
NETWORK SWITCHING SYSTEMS
HARDWARE ENGINEER - March 1984 to April 1985
Systems, hardware and 68000 firmware design of 16 Mbs wide area network T1 multiplexer and switch. T1 interface card design using 68000 processor.
WANG LABORATORIES INC.
PRODUCT ENGINEER - 1979 to March 1984
Design of RF and voice frequency Wangnet modems. Specification and design of control logic for 9600 bps 1 Mbs, and 10 Mbs RF modems. Design of control logic for 4800 bps FAX modem using Rockwell card set. Development of voice synthesis and recognition computer algorithms in BASIC language including LPC analysis and synthesis and digital filter bank fomant techniques.
CODEX CORPORATION
SENIOR ENGINEER - 1978 to 1979
Design of 2400 bps 201 type modem, FSK secondary channel modems and telephone channel two wire simulator. Investigation of switched capacitor filters for modem use.
T-LINE CORPORATION
CHIEF ENGINEER - 1973 to 1978
Digital and analog design of a complete line of PCM test equipment including T1 span and repeater test set, T1/T1C span and repeater test set, T1/T1C error detector and error rate monitor, T1/T1C line scanning monitor. Preparation of brochures, manuals and manufacturing test procedures.
SIERRA ELECTRONICS
RELIABILITY ENGINEER - 1971 to 1973
MENLO PARK, CA
Environmental testing of manufactured test equipment to published specifications. Wrote test procedures for purchased electronic components and manufactured test equipment to ensure compliance to published specifications.
RCA SERVICE CO./GOVERNMENT SERVICES DIVISION - 1967 TO 1970
RADAR ENGINEER - ATLANTIC UNDERSEA TEST AND EVALUATION CENTER
ANDROS ISLAND, BAHAMAS
Technical responsibility for maintenance, operation and modification of five test range radar systems of the surface search, ground search and tracking types. Design of modifications to all areas of X
MITRE CORPORATION
CO-OP STUDENT – 1962-1967
ADVANCED RADAR TECHNIQUES DEPARTMENT
Design, construction and testing of subsystems for experimental radar system. Data reduction using SDS 930 computer. Participation in the operation of multi-site experimental radar system including responsibility for scheduling systems operation.
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